...justified; * Resources from previously assigned course materials or from your own research may be used to justify and support rationale; * All in-text citations and resources must be in APA style; * Submit the completed case in the Assignment Folder. The Case of the Plant Relocation You are the chief executive of Electrocorp, an electronics company, which makes the onboard computer components for automobiles. In your production plants, complex hydrocarbon solvents are used to clean the chips and other parts that go into the computer components. Some of the solvents used are carcinogens and must be handled with extreme care. Until recently, all of your production plants were located in the United States. However, the cost of production has risen, causing profits to decline. A number of factors have increased production costs. First, the union representing the workers in your plant waged a successful strike resulting in increased salary and benefits. The pay and benefits package for beginning employees is around $15/hour. A second factor has been stringent safety regulations. These safety procedures, which apply inside the plant, have been expensive in both time and money. Finally, environmental regulations have made Electrocorp's operations more costly. Electrocorp is required to put its waste through an expensive process before depositing it at a special disposal facility. Shareholders have been complaining to you about the declining fortunes of the company. Many of...
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...Case of the Plant Relocation The chief executive of Electrocorp, an electronics company, which makes the onboard computer components for automobiles, is facing increased production costs. Electrocorp’s production plants, use complex hydrocarbon solvents to clean the chips and other parts that go into the computer components. Some of the solvents used are carcinogens and must be handled with extreme care. Until recently, all of your production plants were located in the United States. However, the cost of production has risen, causing profits to decline. A number of factors have increased production costs. First, the union representing the workers in Electrocorp plants waged a successful strike resulting in increased salary and benefits. The pay and benefits package for beginning employees is around $15/hour. A second factor has been stringent safety regulations. These safety procedures, which apply inside the plant, have been expensive in both time and money. Finally, environmental regulations have made Electrocorp's operations more costly. Electrocorp is required to put its waste through an expensive process before depositing it at a special disposal facility. Shareholders have been complaining about the declining fortunes of the company. Many of Electrocorp's competitors have moved their operations to less-developed countries, where their operating costs are less than in the United States, and you have begun to consider whether to relocate a number of plants to offshore...
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...intentionally discriminatory, although it may seem that way, so therefore it is not racism. A great deal of factors come into play when a business is looking at where to site ion the most commercially reasonable location. The siting of the Camden St. Lawrence Cement Company's plant in a nonwhite neighborhood in 2001 was not environmentally racist because the siting decisions for large plants such as this one are based on the ability to secure the required permits, sufficient transportation networks, and low land costs. The siting of this plant in 2001 in the Waterfront South...
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...desalination plant is an effective and reliable process which can provide purified water in a sustainable, economical and environmental way. ("12 Biggest Pros And Cons Of Desalination")(California Academy of Sciences) The desalination plant uses sea water to create drinkable water for everyone to access. The process of the desalination plan can be approached in two ways. The first is reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis is when the sea water is forced to go through a filter so that it can separate the salt from the water. Additionally,...
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...DECENTRALIZED PLANT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN THE LOGISTICS OF THAI CEMENT Pairoj RAOTHANACHONKUN Graduate Student Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Nagaoka University of Technology 1603-1 Kamitomioka-machi, Nagaoka, Niigata, 940-2188, Japan Fax: +81-258-47-9650 E-mail: pairoj@stn.nagaokaut.ac.jp Shinya HANAOKA Assistant Professor Transportation Engineering School of Civil Engineering Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand Fax: +66-2-524-5509 E-mail: hanaoka@ait.ac.th Abstract: Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCC) faced stiff competition after the economic crisis in 1997, decided to close most of their warehouses for the change of logistics system. SCC presently operates five cement plants located whole regions in Thailand with except of the northeast region where three warehouses are still operated. This plant distribution system can be called the decentralized plant distribution system. Which plant distribution system is more efficient for SCC as the logistics strategy between centralized and decentralized? Based on this background, total logistics costs of both systems are formulated and calculated. In addition, the locations of a single warehouse without plant operation are evaluated using linear programming to minimize total logistics costs, which calculated with and without environmental cost. The results of calculation showed that transportation cost was the most significant cost of the plant distribution...
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...Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviours. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. Although many air pollutants are invisible, they can seriously impact our health, the environment, and our quality of life. Air pollutants may cause respiratory diseases, cancer and other health effects. Pollutants also may create odours and smog, diminishes the protective ozone layer, and contributes to other environmental problems, such as acid rain and global climate change. The air inside homes, schools, and other buildings also may contain pollutants that enter from outdoors and those generated indoors. Mold, radon, tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide, and chemical emissions from products and furnishings are some of the important pollutants that may be present in our homes and other indoor environments.(Frumkin:2010) Particulate matter (PM) affects more people than any other pollutant. The major components of PM are sulphate, nitrates, ammonia, sodium chloride, carbon, mineral dust and water. It consists of a complex mixture of solid and liquid particles of organic and inorganic substances suspended in the air. The particles are identified according to their aerodynamic diameter, as either PM10 (particles with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 10 µm) or PM2.5 (aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 µm). The latter...
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...Name: Daniel Lee Green Title: Plant Transpiration Question: What factor affects the transpiration rate in plants? | |Normal |With Fan |With Heater |With Lamp | |Arrowhead |3.6 |7.5 |6.6 |4.0 | |Coleus |0.9 |6.0 |3.9 |3.0 | |Devil’s Ivy |2.9 |4.6 |4.1 |3.0 | |Dieffenbachia |4.1 |7.7 |6.0 |3.9 | |English Ivy |1.8 |5.1 |3.2 |2.1 | |Geranium |1.2 |4.7 |5.8 |2.4 | |Rubber Plant |4.9 |7.7 |6.0 |3.9 | |Weeping Fig |3.3 |6.1 |4.9 |2.5 | |Zebra Plant |4.2 ...
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...Explain the difference between Neoclassical Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, and Natural Resource Economics. The three approaches originate from three different schools of thought. Broadly, Neoclassical Environmental Economics (NEE) is the opposite of the Ecological Economics (EE), and Natural Resource Economics (NRE) lies somewhere between them. Let’s begin with the opposing views. Field states, ‘Environmental Economics is the application of the principles of economics to the study of how environmental resources are managed. (Field & Field 2013:2). In gist, NEE is an Anthropospheric view of the environment through micro and macro-economic principles and sociopolitical influences that ignores the other spheres of life. The environment, is a subsystem of economics and has no intrinsic value. It is merely a factor of production, and only manufactured goods/services have an intrinsic value. EE, on the other hand, is a holistic approach, broader in scope, concerned with the supply and demand of energy and matter within the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere - where contrastingly, the Anthroposphere is the subsystem. EE claims that NEE is totally dependent on the environment and that residuals and pollution are disruptive to natural processes and diminishes the earth’s bio-capacity. Environmental Economics’ primary focus is to manage the environment to supply services and goods in exchange for money (MO 2015 quoting Tietenberg 2014:7) whereas...
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...Previous Work Wendy Stockley, Environmental Manager for Hondaís twoOhio-based automobile manufacturing plants, was about to be visited by Mr. Suzuki, the most senior environmental official from Honda headquarters in Japan. The company had recently taken a strong interest in certification under the new ISO 14000 environmental management standards. Suzuki had asked Stockley to evaluate the environmental practices of the Ohio plants in light of the ISO standards. In particular, he was interested in whether lean production practices, the cornerstone of Honda’s high-quality manufacturing operations, were helping to achieve environmental performance or whether they were a hindrance. Although the manufacturing plants of other automobile companies in the United States had explicitly designed their environmental policies around federal and state regulations, Honda had tried to design policies that followed from, and were integrated with, its lean production philosophy. These policies were generally more flexible than traditional approaches and focused more on the end goal of efficiency than on meeting regulations. Stockley hoped to find the Honda approach better adapted to the ISO 14000 standards because of these characteristics. To respond to her charge, Stockley had gathered data on the environmental management and performance at the two Ohio-based Honda plants, East Liberty and Marysville. She had also obtained data from her associates on the plants’ general productivity, quality...
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...quantitative evaluation of the investments, GMT should also take into account other non-financial factors which will provide a qualitative evaluation of the investment. Combining both quantitative and qualitative evaluations will allow for a more holistic appraisal of investments. Here are some examples of non-financial factors that should be taken into consideration. State of economy Depending on the jurisdiction where the plant will be operating, the state of the economy will vary. Aside from the current state, GMT should also consider the project economic status for the expected lifetime of the project. Regulatory environment Given that the projects involve purchasing a new plant,...
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...‘GM food advances the goal of sustainable development.’ To what extent do you think this is true? The Earth is facing severe environmental degradation. Years of resource exploitation and pollution have caused environmental problems and their effects are being felt globally. It has been estimated that if the world’s population reaches between10-11 billion then 5 more Planet Earths would be needed to maintain the present level of ecological decline. The environmental use in some countries is already unsustainable. Technology has allowed the world to cope with agriculture and an increasing population, however the FAO expects a long term decrease in food production in rich countries (Alexandratos 1988). 800 million people are affected today by hunger and malnutrition(Food Future 2000). The FAO claims that 650 million of these people will still be in the same situation by 2010. The world produces enough food, often it is the distribution process that causes problems. However this food may be produced in a non sustainable way. Pesticides, use of non farming land and the demand for cash crops over self sufficiency are not necessarily in the environments best interest. Factors such as poverty, wealth and inequality place burdens on the environment and possible sustainability. Genetically modified foods could be a key factor in advancing the goal of sustainable development. Biotechnology is the use of biological science to alter living organisms for the benefit of mankind. Every...
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...hij Teacher Resource Bank Environmental Studies Unit 1 ENVS1 The Living Environment Teachers Notes Copyright © 2008 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (company number 3644723) and a registered charity (registered charity number 1073334). Registered address: AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX. Dr Michael Cresswell, Director General. Teacher Resource Bank / GCE Environmental Studies / Teachers’ Notes Unit 1 / Version 1.0 Unit 1 ENVS1 The Living Environment Introduction These Teachers’ Notes are intended to expand upon Unit 1: The Living Environment by providing greater detail of the topics to be covered and how these should be developed. Examples included in the specification must be covered. Where specific examples are not given, suitable examples should be chosen to illustrate the principles and issues that are included in the specification. This guide includes suitable examples that may be used (in italics) but others may be used if preferred eg if the candidates or teachers have particular experience or knowledge. It is anticipated that the use of carefully selected examples may reduce total teaching effort by enabling a number of issues to be covered in a single situation. This will also help candidates to appreciate the holistic, inter-connected nature of the subject and prepare them for the study of broader issues such as sustainability...
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...Name of Company: CEMEX Title: Corporate Environmental Responsibility: An investigation into CEMEX Semester/ Campus Details: Semester 1, 2012 - Bentley (Word Count: 1793) Corporate Environmental Responsibility: An investigation into the performance of CEMEX Environmental protection is currently one of the most pressing social issues; it features on the agenda of many different groups within society, including governments, special interest groups and global organisations. The actions of organisations with regard to the environment are becoming a large factor in their total profit and propensity for future growth. CEMEX is the third largest company in global cement and aggregate production; and the world’s leading supplier of ready-mix cement. Their annual production levels of cement and aggregate are approximately 55 million cubic metres and 160 million tonnes respectively. They have operations spanning across thirty three countries, currently employing 44,104 people and have an annual sales figure of US$15.14 billion (CEMEX 2012). The stakeholders that are of focus in this paper are the neighbouring communities of the production plants and the many employees of CEMEX. The production of cement is one of the most environmentally unfriendly practices in the world. During production, there are a number of environmental problems; CEMEX has a number of policies and procedures in place to combat their significant environmental impacts; but the damage to the environment...
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...not yet reach the carrying capacity. 2. Density-dependent factor- affect population growth , such as disease, predators, and competition for food 3. Density –independent factor- environmental factors that do not depend on population size such as storms and fires. 4. Exponential growth- which is a pattern of growth in which a population grows faster as it increases 5. Bioremediation- the use of organisms to clean up or break down toxic waste. 6. Deforestation- removing all the trees and plants in a area 7. Pesticide- chemicals applied to farm fields to control weeds and insects and fungi 8. Reclamation- to restore the land to its original form 9. Acid precipitation- forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides combine 10. Ozone hole- which is a decrease in the ozone in polar regions 11. Photochemical smog- that’s forms mainly from automobile exhaust in the presence of sunlight 12. Nonpoint source-generates pollution from widespread areas 13. Point source- originate from a single point of origin Questions: Answer the following questions. 14. Identify ways to conserve water. Fix leaky toilets, bathtubs, and faucets 15. Summarize the types and sources of water pollution. Groundwater pollution, ocean pollution 16. Describe some methods of controlling water pollution. Make water pools for factory’s wastes instead of rivers or lakes, make sewage treatment plants far away from groundwater supplies 17. Relate the green...
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...Complex Market Forces are challenging Appalachian Coal Mining Complex Market Forces are challenging Appalachian Coal Mining Article summary This paper describes how environmental forces affect the coal mining industry and plays an important role in our life. We will learn that environmental forces brings threats, uncertainty and opportunities to marketers and consumers . Although this paper focus on the coal mining industry, I believe that the main points focus on the environmental forces that marketer and consumers face every day. Appalachia’s coal communities were confronted by a confluence of market factors that developed over a period of years; resulting in numerous market factors, including low domestic and international prices for both thermal and metallurgical coal, soft natural gas prices, and increased imports—primarily from Colombia all contributing to the dwindling fortunes of coal mines in Appalachia. Low prices of natural gas combined with the air-quality benefits that come with burning gas rather than coal for electricity, have eroded coal’s position as the go-to energy source for power generation. Natural gas powered plants is now on the increase and it is projected that natural gas-fired plants will account for 73 percent of capacity additions through 2040, compared with just 1 percent for coal. Appalachian coal is more expensive than coal from other parts of the United States. The high cost of Appalachian is supplanted by lower-cost...
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